{"id":1173,"date":"2010-07-07T22:56:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T02:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2010-07-07T22:56:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T02:56:50","slug":"being-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=1173","title":{"rendered":"Being Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you can recognize the feeling of happiness when it&#8217;s there, you will realize that this feeling is what you have been looking for all along.  <em>The feeling isn&#8217;t leading somewhere else &#8212; it&#8217;s the goal, not the means to a goal.<\/em>  If the bride-to-be understands that her happiness comes first from within, she can make the decision to marry or not to marry from a place of wisdom, not from a place of lack.  If she is already happy, the marriage will also be happy.  If the couple then decides to have children, the children will grow up in a happy environment without the pressure of being someone&#8217;s source of happiness.  The same will be true throughout the life of any happy person.  Happiness breeds a happy existence and a joyous way of looking at life&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Happiness is right now.  Your life is not a dress rehearsal for some later date &#8212; it is right here, right now.  The invisible quality of happiness we have all been looking for is right here in a feeling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Carlson, PhD, <em>You Can Be Happy No Matter What,<\/em> p. 127, 129<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you can recognize the feeling of happiness when it&#8217;s there, you will realize that this feeling is what you have been looking for all along. The feeling isn&#8217;t leading somewhere else &#8212; it&#8217;s the goal, not the means to a goal. If the bride-to-be understands that her happiness comes first from within, she can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}